On Tue, Nov 13, 2012 at 3:00 PM, Emmanuel Lécharny <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi guys, > > I have some questions about the replication configuration... > > AFAICT, we may configure the server to be a consumer, a producer, both > of them, or none of them. > > A standalone server will not be a producer or a consumer > A master server will be a producer > A slave server will be a consummer > A master/slave server will be a producer and a consumer > > In any case, a server will always be able to be a producer as soon as it > allows another server to connect on it as a consumer, and get > replicated, so for a server to be a producer is just a matter of > receiving a consumer request. > > Am I right ? > yes > I'm asking because I added a flag that allow a server to become a > producer on demand as soon as the ads-replicationEnabled flag is set to > true (this flag is used to start the replication handler when the server > is started). Does it makes sense to keep this flag ? Or should we always > start the replication handler ? > prior to this flag we have always looked for the presence of ads-replReqHandler attribute if it exists we instantiate this class and the server acts as a provider/master > I'm inclined to think that teh flag is a good thing to have. wdyt ? > If the above attribute's absence can be treated as a 'false' value so IMHO this flag is spurious in a way > -- > Regards, > Cordialement, > Emmanuel Lécharny > www.iktek.com >
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